ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia?s parliament has approved senior diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as the country?s first female president, proceedings on state television showed, cementing another shift in the country?s political system from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

NAIROBI - An Ethiopian court has freed 11 police officers on bail after they were detained on suspicion of negligence in a grenade attack on a rally in June attended by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, state-affiliated media said on Tuesday.